Oncoheroes Biosciences' drug discovery project (2HIT Medulloblastoma), led by Eva Mendez Camarena, has been awarded the best childhood research project by Fundació Agrupació.
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant childhood tumor of the brain, accounting for 20% of all central nervous system tumors among children, and responsible for almost 10% of all pediatric cancer deaths. MB Group 3 is mainly affecting infants and children accounting for approximately 25% of all cases and showing the worst outcome, with only 20% of patients surviving 5 years post-diagnosis.
Due to the lack of available specific treatments for children other than the conventional therapies that have devastating secondary effects, Oncoheroes Biosciences aims to develop an innovative therapy for MB Group 3 patients with greater therapeutic effect and lower toxicity by inhibiting two different tumorigenic mechanisms at once and using highly predictive translational models.
